Stuff Someone Should Make
Things that might be cool to see exist in the world.
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a Wacom Inkling pen with conductive ink, so you can share your circuit designs easily
Conductive ink allows you to draw curcuits, and the Wacom Inkling automatically digitizes your drawings in realtime. Together, you could create vector circuit drawing that would be dead easy to share.
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Pantry Porn: a gallery for people to show off their kitchen pantries
Stocking a pantry takes time and hard work. I for one want to show off sometimes.
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app that keeps track of your pantry stock based on what you cook
Use the app to keep track of the meals you cook; based on your description the app guesses how much ingredients you've used and reminds you when you need more.
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Realtime map of US Drone Strikes
I have no idea how many/how often, but I think it'd be alarming and educational to see it laid out.
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a repository of Monster/LinkedIn resumes as JSON hashes
would be useful for recruiting firms and job placement agencies.
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a planting optimization tool for gardeners and small farms
Solve for one variable: season, geography, output (food or aesthetic), etc
FACETS
Timing
- Grow time
- Time of year
- Geography/climate
WeatherPlanting
Greenhouse to transplant
- start date to end date in greenhouse
- or plant directly, less space but less risk
- garden to garden
- timing
- space
- soil (rich vs lean, wet vs dry, nutrients)
- categorical prohibatives (carrots)
- proximity to other plants
- composting
- perennial vs annualAPP FEATURES
Start backwards
Adjust mid seasonTiming - climate, weather, grow time, geography, hemisphere (NOAA API?)
Space - lightSelect for ideal plants
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Cardsquare - "checkin to cash out"
When you're at a bar, checkin to start your tab and when you leave a geofencing radius your account gets charged.
1 vote -
Git for cooks' recipes
Version control for cooks so they can individually or collectively tweak or add to recipes.
4 votes -
communications management tool for caregiver's of hospital patients
Create autoresponders to phone calls, SMS and emails that point to a central forum for health status updates and well-wisher's comments.
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"bring my pet in or not"
Remote screening tool for vets where pet owners submit photos and symptoms, and get a response as to whether they should bring in their animal.
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Github gist feed
So you can see what people you follow are pasting in Github.
You can:
- create a gist feed for code reference
- show gists by keyword, language, or follower
- enable replies and favoriting1 vote -
digital bill splitter
when you pay for lunch, take a picture of the check with your phone and use OCR + manual tagging to charge your friends.
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an NOAA weather alert app that doesn't suck
It should:
Detect location
Select specific alerts or high/med/low
kickass UIas opposed to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-alert-usa/id314502416?mt=8 whose UI is awful.
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